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Ingo Steinke, web developer
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25 Google Alternatives every DEV must know in 2025 🤯💥

This is a follow-up to my post about Google Alternatives that I wrote in 2022 and kept updating it ever since, but it didn't get enough likes and views yet, I guess.

Google as a search engine 🔎

  1. Ecosia
  2. DuckDuckGo 🦆
  3. Wolfram Alpha
  4. startpage.com (thanks @patricktingen) for suggesting!)
  5. MetaGer (German non-profit meta search engine) 🇩🇪
  6. (Meta)Searx (thanks @vivekkj)
  7. Qwant (thanks @dlepenven)
  8. Bing by Microsoft
  9. using site search forms and browsing documentation sites and man pages

Maps and Navigation 🗺️

  1. Treeday.net 🌳
  2. Open Street Map
  3. OsmAnd (Open Street Map Android client with offline option)
  4. mapy.cz (also based on Open Street Map, with a very useful Android app, especially for hiking in Europe) 🇨🇿
  5. maps.me ("maps with me")
  6. Sygic 🇨🇿
  7. bike citizens 🚲
  8. komoot (German) hiking community with navigation option

Calendar, Contact Sync, Documents 📅

  1. owncloud ☁️
  2. Nextcloud (thanks @vivekkj) ☁️
  3. WEchange.de 🇩🇪
  4. cal.com (formerly known as Calendso)
  5. Mega.NZ (thanks @webbureaucrat) 🇳🇿
  6. skiff.org
  7. Disroot.org
  8. Proton mail / calendar

Don't ask yourself why you might need a Google Alternative. It's 2025 and here are 25 Google Alternatives that every developer MUST use in 2025! But if you do, my original post about Google Alternatives has more background and even more alternatives.

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david duymelinck

Yesterday I found a site targeting European alternatives, european-alternatives.eu. It are not only Google alternatives.

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Ingo Steinke, web developer

Google is only one of the organizations beyond our control that we still rely on, Meta is another example. Ideally, every alternative should be open-source, but often commercial solutions look nicer and appeal to the average non-techy user.

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Oscar

Wikipedia is of course always wonderful for most information related things. Great list!

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Rosendo Rodriguez • Edited

A couple of years I go I changed to DuckDuckGo, Brave and proton solutions.

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Dhanush

Searching 🔍:
Webcrawler

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Anmol Baranwal

I feel like Perplexity is getting really close to competing with Google (especially with endless follow-ups) and you know, google is just flooded with ads these days.

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Yizus “Thejesuscrist” Crist

Honestly Kagi is a good option, especially if you struggle when trying to find results.
I use the professional plan since I wouldn't use the extra features of the Ultimate, and usually do about 800-1100 searches per month

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Kiran Menderkar

If we have learnt one thing from history, its CHANGE!! If not for change, companies like Kodak, Blackberry, Nokia, Xerox, IBM, Blockbuster, Cisco would have been the ruling the world today. So, thanks to the AI wave, we might be looking at an alternate very soon. One of them from this list could be a big possibility. Perplexity, ChatGPT are at the top of the list....

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Ingo Steinke, web developer

AI is disruptive, but it's not a search engine.

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Anmol Baranwal

A few years ago, I never would have thought that anything could replace Google. Tech moves so fast :)

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Saile Dalil • Edited

I also utilising more and more chatgpt.

192.168.100.1 192.168.1.1

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Florian Klenk

I found myself utilising more and more chatgpt or deepseek instead of a search.

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